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It is an image as fateful as any in the nation's history. The final minute before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 marked the last moment of American exceptionalism forged in the post-World War II years and normalized in the dominant 1950s.
But the memory of that afternoon in Dallas also served to mask a series of other monumental happenings. In Beyond Our Vision: Stories From the Decade That Changed Everything, author A. E. Perkins profiles the people and places that were relegated to the back pages of the most tumultuous period in American history.
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